Manager, Vision Hardware Engineering

Company Description

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do  a global leader in robotic‑assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

The Future Forward group within Intuitive Surgical is searching for a Manager, Vision Hardware Engineering, to lead the team developing camera and illumination hardware for a novel robotic surgical platform. As an early member of the team, this role is an exciting opportunity to help define the eventual product from early prototypes through clinical trials and into product launch.

• Lead the Vision Hardware Engineering team of mechanical and electrical engineers to execute design work from early stage prototypes through product launch by:
• Setting appropriate goals and milestones.
• Providing technical guidance to engineers.
• Driving schedule and budget planning and execution.
• Dividing work among team members based on individual skills and capacity.
• Growing the team by identifying gaps and filling roles with top talent.
• Coaching, developing, and mentoring team members to support their growth within the organization.
• Working with peer managers and cross‑functional organizations to develop plans and organizational solutions.
• Supporting documentation of risks, requirements, specifications, and test results within Intuitive Quality system.

• 8 years experience as an individual contributor in design engineering role.
• 3 years experience managing engineers.
• Participation in full design cycle from concept through launch.
• Solid mechanical engineering fundamentals, technical proficiency in mechanism design and electro‑mechanical assemblies.
• Translation of product requirements into engineering specifications and verifying design performance to requirements.
• Failure mode analyses, designing mitigations to failure modes, and verifying performance of mitigations.
• Strong communication skills and ability to create effective presentations.
• Department planning, scheduling, and budgeting, as well as tracking and managing performance to plan.

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or closely related field.

• None.

• Managing staff‑level mechanical engineers.
• Vision, camera, imaging, or opto‑mechanical design experience.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID‑19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,…